Set-up Week

Who knew something so tiring could be so much fun.
This week I have gotten to do so much stuff and it is becoming increasingly difficult for me to explain what exactly I am do.
Let's start with this...
I am the kind of person who finds things to do. If something needs to get done I like to work until the job is finished. I see now that God really did put me as Operations Coordinator for a reason.
My job description basically tells me to deal with food, allergies, supplies, chores, and making sure chores get done. Most of these things can't be done before volunteers get here. This has enabled me to really get things done.
I really feel like I have been able to help my staff this week by doing the odds and ends things that no one wants to do. I have put up shower curtains, built supports out of 2x4's, and driven an hour away to get keys made.
I knew God put me here for a reason, but I thought that reason was to help people who are living in poverty. Now I see that not only has God done that, but he put me here to support my staff.
Yesterday me entire staff came back from doing initial home visits

clarifying note:
Initial Home Visits or IHVs are the first step for us as a staff in choosing a home to work on.

Anyway. They came back from doing initial home visits and they were really discouraged. It is so frustrating here to have to turn around fifty times while trying to find a house by following directions that go something like this:

Go up 27 until you see the gas station
turn right and veer right
Once you see the hill with the rock go two streets and turn right
look for a trailer with a red roof and a white porch
Turn immediately there and look for the three dogs
Turn at those dogs and drive for awhile
Pass Jon's house and turn left
We are the third house on the right.

We seriously get directions like that. Immediately we have a dilemma. Which direction are we going on 27!!!!
It is so frustrating.


But I digress

My staff was really discouraged and they were tired from all of the driving and not finding houses. I had been building support posts all afternoon in the hot sun and was tired also. But they were by far more tired then I was and I felt like they just needed a hand. So I went and made dinner for all of them.
Everyone else had tons of stuff they needed to do and I was able to help them and this gave me energy.

My co-worker Penny said something today that really hit home for me. We were driving in the middle of nowhere and we found a trailer we were looking for.
She said, "That has to be the house. That person is definitely living in poverty."

I've been looking for homes to fix. God is looking at the person who is living in that poverty. The person who doesn't have the money to fix the floor that has rotted away because their toilet leaked and no one would fix it. God looks at the person who can't get their wheelchair into their house because they don't have a ramp which makes them unable to leave their house.
God is showing up here and we only have two more days before volunteers arrive. THIS IS CRAZY!!!
We have so much stuff to do still. I feel like we need to kick it into high gear..... but we did that yesterday : (

This is what it's about though and I am so excited to actually get the construction started.

This blog was supposed to be a video blog but for some reason it won't load. So I am typing things out.
Prayer requests:
That I can find time to read my bible (it s getting increasingly hard to do so)
That we would find quality homes to work on
That God would change my attitude from finding a home to finding the person living in poverty.



Oh and i found two ticks on me today... Luckily neither of them bit me woot!
I am tired and I've typed a lot so good night I miss you all.